A new Pike and Fischer report predicts that Americans will spend a third of their television time watching on-demand programs by 2012. The definition of on-demand seems to mean specifically VOD from a cable, telecom or satellite operator, not Internet offerings. I have to say I’m actually a little surprised. With anecdotal evidence of VOD [...]
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The recent acquisition of Sling by Echostar certainly suggests that the big guys in the biz value a little technology called place-shifting, and that the little guys still need big pockets to move their technology forward. So with the place-shifting market starting to mature, here’s a look at what has and hasn’t already been accomplished. [...]
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UPDATE: Motorola has won the WiMax World USA Industry Choice Award for the CPEi 800/850 Series Desktop CPE, a WiMax-ready broadband device for the home. Ars Technica put up a glowing review last night of Motorola’s mobile WiMax demonstration on the Chicago River. The demo took place on a short cruise during WiMax World where [...]
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Resident expert on switched digital video (SDV), Bruce Bradley, gave a briefing last week to talk about the bandwidth implications of SDV, deployment timelines, and how the technology is likely to evolve. Here are my takeaways from the conversation: On the bandwidth front, cost models are showing that SDV is the most efficient (read cheap) [...]
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Motorola officially announced today the technology behind recent encoder deals with the launch of the DSR-6000 series of receiver-transcoders. Basically, the new technology can deliver content using either MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-2 compression – an excellent solution given our varied video-delivery landscape. Three points of interest: For content folks this means a new ability to [...]
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